Setting Up Cadence on COE system

Before you can start Cadence, there are a few configuration files that are needed in your home directory. These files determine the environment in which Cadence runs, what libraries are to be included in your current session. No doubt these files can be edited to suit personal preferences. The setup given below is tailored for machines in the COE workstation cluster, and is given for NCSU kit:

Step 1: Download mobaxterm and type ""ssh -Y -l(el) yourid remote.ece.neu.edu"" to Login your ECE or COE(Unix) Account as tcsh or csh( type "tcsh" or csh ).
     If you are using COE account , login the cadence server.

          Type "linux-load"

          Then, you can see which machines are less busy

          Login the machine (type "ssh -p 27 XXXX.coe.neu.edu" or XXXXX)

          XXXX is the name of the machine

Download  cadence.sh and activate it ( source cadence.sh ).

Step 2: Make your working directory using "mkdir" command in the Unix machine

Step 3: Download "setup.csh"in the course homepage and copy it in your working directory for 180nm technology.

Step 4: Activate the "setup.csh" file in your working directory.
               (source setup.csh )

(You can check a few files in your working directory after the Step 4)

The "cadence.sh" have to be activated whenever logging in your account.

* If you change the file name of "cadence.sh" to ".cshrc", you do not need to activate it all that time.

However, in this case, you may be in trouble when you try to run other program such as matlab.

Step 5: Run Cadence 

 Type  virtuoso  &

Be careful! Cadence has to be run under your working directory.

Dr. Yong-Bin Kim. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
327 Dana Research Center, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Tel: (617) 373-2919, Fax: (617) 373-8970
ybk@ece.neu.edu